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C 23 (I 53)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: C2
Fate: Scrapped in December 1921.

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1909: 7th Section - HMS Vulcan - Dundee.
1912: 7th Flotilla - HMS Vulcan - Dundee.
1914: 7th Flotilla Chatham, HMS Vulcan and Alecto
1914: 7th Flotilla - HMS Vulcan - Rosyth.
1914: 7th Flotilla - HMS Vulcan - Leith.
1916: 1st Flotilla - HMS Hebe - Leith.
1916: 9th Flotilla - HMS Forth - Harwich.
1917: 4th Flotilla - HMS Thames.
1917: 9th Flotilla - Harwich.

Another of the C class which took part in trawler/submarine operations.

Had difficulties trying to slip her tow from the armed trawler Ratapiko in August of 1916. The attack on the unsuspecting U-boat had to be aborted.

Events

07-02-1908  Laid Down
26-11-1908  Launched
05-05-1909  Completed
C2 Specification
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